Matt Schalit wrote: > > Jack Coates wrote: > > > > On Mon, 4 Feb 2002, David Douthitt wrote: > > > > > Another note: rdate uses an old obsolete form of network time > > > synchronization; I suspect more and more time servers may stop > > > providing the service rdate uses (wuarchive.wustl.edu seems to have > > > stopped...) > > > > > > If anyone's bundled it, ntpdate would be better to use... > > > > And how; there's a xntpd package out there, but I haven't seen ntpdate. > > xntpd's binary is 175,832 bytes; the whole package is 88,007 > > bytes compressed. > > First of all, tock.usno.navy.mil still offers the "time" service > that rdate connects to. I prefer xntpd and run a master time > server on my Unix box, which LEAF sets it's time to. > > Secondly this whole discussion about setting the date > is a waste of time until David replaces the broken busybox > date with a working date binary. What good is it to set > the clock with atomic precision when date doesn't even know > the difference between GMT and EST? Most programs get the > date and time wrong, while the other half log with a shifted > timestamp? The syslog goes kablooie. You have no idea when > anything happened. But it's atomically accurate.... > that's a relief :) > > Additionally, Serge is talking about creating a baseline > of packages for LEAF that includes busybox. I hope he's > actually tried each busybox command, like date.
If somebody is going to fix busybox date, please, either correct the supported options or -- PREFERABLY -- make the options work as advertised! <http://www.busybox.net/downloads/BusyBox.html#item_date> date date [OPTION]... [+FORMAT] Displays the current time in the given FORMAT, or sets the system date. Options: -R Outputs RFC-822 compliant date string -d STRING display time described by STRING, not `now' -s Sets time described by STRING -u Prints or sets Coordinated Universal Time -d definitely *DOES NOT* work! Others are severely limited and _without_ any documentation to illustrate the limitations . . . -- Best Regards, mds mds resource 888.250.3987 Dare to fix things before they break . . . Our capacity for understanding is inversely proportional to how much we think we know. The more I know, the more I know I don't know . . . _______________________________________________ Leaf-user mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/leaf-user
